No knockout punch again - The Province

July 14, 2008

Whitecaps 1 Railhawks 1. Now winless in last four USL games

Steve Ewen
The Province

Vancouver Whitecaps captain Jeff Clarke admits his team is missing that knockout scoring punch right now.

"If this was boxing, we'd be undefeated in our last 10 ... we're certainly ahead on points," said Clarke, whose club had the run of play again Sunday but could manage only a 1-1 draw with the Carolina RailHawks at Swangard Stadium.

"The goals are what matters. We know that and we work on it. Our work at training just isn't translating into our 90-minute play right now."

Now winless in four USL First Division games, Vancouver (7-4-3) had most of the ball possession last night against a team from Carolina (4-4-8) that played Friday in Minnesota.

They had trouble making that final pass and getting to goal for legitimate chances, though, leaving the crowd of 4,989 little to get excited about.

Eduardo Sebrango scored for Vancouver, but, right now, that probably goes without saying.

His marker in the 75th minute, after taking a crafty Martin Nash feed and darting around onrushing Carolina goalkeeper Chris McClellan, was his fifth of the campaign.

The rest of the team has eight goals among them.

The team pushes forward more under new coach Teitur Thordarson than it did under his predecessor, Bob Lilley, but the outcomes haven't shown it so far.

"We basically have one player that scores goals, and that's Eddy," said Thordarson. "We need more of them."